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Humanoid robot with open electronics
Open Source Robotics Foundation
17 Dec 2014
We’re pleased to announce the public release of information on a long-standing collaboration between OSRF and Sandia National Labs. The Intelligent Systems Control Department at Sandia is developing...
Holiday robot video 2014: Autonomous Christmas Lab
Robohub Editors
16 Dec 2014
Our first holiday robot video of the season is in! From the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich's Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems:
Dear Robohub- and Robots Podcast-Team,
We are h...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: Weekly Roundup 12/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
As the aerial view becomes more accessible, questions persist about how to properly read an aerial image. Revisiting Harun Farocki’s Images of the World a...
10.1% CAGR projected for material handling robots through 2020
Frank Tobe
15 Dec 2014
UPDATED 12.16.14: Robots for palletizing, logistics, packaging, and speciality materials handling (e.g.: in life science labs and for pharma, food and beverage, semiconductor and electronics) are pro...
Berlin hardware startup Skysense launches drone range
Ben Fisher
15 Dec 2014
Skysense is a Berlin-based start up designing and manufacturing a range of products to enable the remote operation of drones. Their first two products are the Skysense Charging pad and Skysense Hanga...
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Robotics in Theatre, Film, and Television, with Grant Imahara and Richard McKenna
Ron Vanderkley
13 Dec 2014
NEW: Transcript below.
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Mythbusters‘ Grant Imahara, and Richard McKenna from The Creature Technology Company about robotics in the film, television and th...
ETH and University of Zurich launch Wyss Translational Center Zurich
ETH Zurich
12 Dec 2014
ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich are founding a new translational research centre at the interface of medicine, science and engineering: the Wyss Translational Center Zurich. A USD 120 million ...
Donate to Robohub for a chance to win a Parrot minidrone
Robohub Editors
12 Dec 2014
Robohub is now running its annual holiday fundraising campaign and everyone who donates will be entered into a drawing for a Parrot minidrone! Our summer campaign raised $6K, enough to cover our opera...
Evolving swimming robots to study origins of extinct vertebrates
Hypotheses about the evolution of traits in ancient species are difficult to test, as the relevant animals have often been extinct for thousands or millions of years. In the present study, a populatio...
New CAA rules govern use of drones in built up areas
Ben Fisher
09 Dec 2014
The UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has announced updated rules that will give operators an annual permission to operate in built up areas....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: Weekly Roundup 12/8
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In 2007, Addie Wagenknecht started using drones to make abstract paintings. Her works both challenge and celebrate the aerial robot and its power. In an in-...
25% of KUKA shares trade hands
Frank Tobe
08 Dec 2014
Voith GmbH, among the biggest family-owned businesses in Europe, acquired 25% of robot maker Kuka AG by buying the shares held by Grenzebach GmbH.
The transaction was valued at €555 million ...
GoPro to start making drones
Ben Fisher
04 Dec 2014
[tweetquote]GoPro is to start making its own line of drones and have them ready for release as early as Christmas 2015.[/tweetquote] Early indications of price point range from $500 to $1,000 for the ...
Ocean-going robot fleet successfully completes fish-tracking mission
National Oceanography Centre (NOC)
04 Dec 2014
The second phase of an ambitious project to gather valuable information on ocean processes and marine life using a fleet of innovative marine robots has just reached its conclusion. Co-ordinated by th...
GraspIO – An easy way to build electronics using iPhone, iPad & Android
Grasp IO, Inc.
03 Dec 2014
GraspIO is part hardware and part software, and gives everyone an easy way to build electronics projects using smartphones and tablets. It’s the world’s first DIY electronics platform with easy-to...
Christmas is orange at Amazon
Frank Tobe
02 Dec 2014
15K+ bright orange Kiva robots are operating across the US and at 10 Amazon fulfillment distribution centers this holiday season....
Agricultural technology making news
Frank Tobe
02 Dec 2014
My article Are agricultural robots ready? was widely read last month. Now there are two new in-depth articles on the subject by the NY Times and San Jose Mercury News. All are informative and worth y...
Ozobot, Knightscope, HiBot and Airware all get funding
Frank Tobe
02 Dec 2014
UPDATED 12.03.14 Four interesting funding announcements: Ozobot got $2 million; HiBot got $3.1; Knightscope got $3.7; and Airware got an undisclosed amount but from a substantial partner, GE Venture...
Robohub Digest Nov. 2014: Philae touchdown, Pirker overturned, 70K robovacuums sold
Jana Witt and Hallie Siegel
01 Dec 2014
[tweetquote]A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news[/tweetquote], our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....
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Mobility Transformation Facility, with Edwin Olson
Audrow Nash
28 Nov 2014
NEW: Full transcript below.
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Edwin Olson, an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, about the University’s 32-acre testing environment for auton...
Transport Canada releases new framework for governing UAV operations
Diana Marina Cooper
28 Nov 2014
Earlier this month, Transport Canada announced that commercial operators will soon be able to benefit from two exemptions from the general Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC) requirement. Tod...
RoCKIn2014, live stream and live scores
Robohub Editors
28 Nov 2014
The RoCKIn2014 competition event is taking place right now, you can watch the live stream, broadcasting directly from Cité de l'espace science museum and you can also view the live scores from RoCKIn...
Evaluating the effectiveness of robot behaviors in human-robot interactions
Autonomous Robots Blog
26 Nov 2014
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience.
Robots that interact with everyday users may need a combination of speech, gaze, and...
Aeon Scientific wins 2014 Swiss Technology Award
Michael Keller and ETH Zurich
26 Nov 2014
The cardiologist sits in the control room next to the operating theatre and uses a joystick to steer a catheter through the patient's blood vessel into the heart's chambers to treat the card...
Firmer footing for robots with smart walking sticks
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
26 Nov 2014
Anyone who has ever watched a humanoid robot move around in the real world — an "unstructured environment," in research parlance — knows how hard it is for a machine to plan complex movements, bal...
The CORAL group: Interview with Joydeep Biswas and Brian Coltin
Our newest video interview features PhD student Joydeep Biswas, who works with Dr. Manuela Veloso’s CORAL research group, and scientist Brian Coltin, who is at NASA's Ames Intelligent Research g...
Japan’s new robotics push: Funding and deregulation
Frank Tobe
25 Nov 2014
In June, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he wanted to treble the market for robots in Japan to $22 billion by 2020. Last month, the government launched a "robot revolution realization council...
EU Robotics Week is on!
Robohub Editors
25 Nov 2014
The fourth annual EU Robotics Week is on across Europe, with more than 300 activities happening this week in 25 EU countries.
Industry, research institutes and universities all over Europe will be...
MecklerMedia launches RoboUniverse
Frank Tobe
24 Nov 2014
MecklerMedia, a trade show organizer, is launching a new three-day, two-track workshop, seminar and exhibition on most verticals in robotics (other than heavy industry, military and space) to be held ...
Minesweepers 2014: Outdoor robotic competition on humanitarian demining
Alaa Khamis
21 Nov 2014
Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-Free World is an outdoor robotic competition initiated by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society – Egypt Chapter that aims to raise public awareness of the seriousne...
National Science Foundation and federal partners award $31.5M to advance co-robots in US
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
20 Nov 2014
From disaster recovery to caring for the elderly in the home, scientists and engineers are developing robots that can handle critical tasks in close proximity to humans, safely and with greater resili...
Over 70,000 robotic vacuum cleaners sold on a single day
Frank Tobe
20 Nov 2014
Just last month Rod Brooks chided me that robotic vacuum cleaners were already mainstream in response to what I had written: that they had just recently moved from niche to mainstream partly because ...
NTSB overturns Pirker case: Drones are aircraft
Dronologista
19 Nov 2014
The Pirker case was a landmark case in UAV legislation development. In 2011, Raphael Pirker used his Ritewing Zephyr UAV to make some aerial footage over the University of Virginia campus, and for tha...
Better micro-actuators to transport materials in liquids
Fabio Bergamin and ETH Zurich
18 Nov 2014
Researchers have developed improved forms of tiny magnetic actuators thanks to new materials and a microscopic 3D printing technology....
Drone designers/builders compete in finals of ASME Student Design Competition
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
17 Nov 2014
Eighteen teams of young engineers-in-training competed for the right to call themselves world champion drone builders at the 22nd annual ASME Student Design Competition (SDC) finals today at the Inter...
UN discusses humanitarian uses of drones
Frank Tobe
17 Nov 2014
At a recent meeting at the United Nations, UN and UNICEF officials met with NGOs including Red Cross, food and peacekeeping groups, to discuss setting up a network of humanitarian uses for drones and...
